Dr. Michael J. DeMoor
Assistant Professor of Social Philosophy in Politics, History and Economics
Office: A226
Phone: 780-465-3500 x8195
Email: michael.demoor@kingsu.ca
Education
Ph.D., Free University of Amsterdam/ Institute for Christian Studies (2011)
M. Phil., F. Institute for Christian Studies (2003)
B.A., The King’s University College (2000)
Research Interests
● Social Ontology● Christian Social and Political Thought
Current Research
Social practice accounts of objectivity and normativity in Robert Brandom and G.W.F. Hegel.
Selected Publications
“Kuyper, Sphere Sovereignty, and the Possibility of Political Friendship” The Kuyper Center Review: Volume One: Politics, Religion, and Sphere Sovereignty, ed. Gordon Graham. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010; pp. 61-82
“Christian Philosophy, Critical Realism and the Apprehension of Existence: Etienne Gilson’s ‘Knowledge and Existence’” Études Maritainiennes/Maritain Studies [Forthcoming]
“The Philosophy of Art in Reid’s Inquiry and its Place in 18th Century Scottish Aesthetics.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 4 (2006), no. 1: 37-49.
“Autonomous Rationality and Rational Autonomy: Kant, Fichte and
Dooyeweerd on Subjectivity, Objectivity and Normativity.” Philosophia
Reformata 72 (2007), no. 2: 105-129.
Selected Presentations
“Kuyper, Sphere Sovereingty and the Possibility of Civic Friendship” Civil Society and Sphere Sovereignty Conference, April 17-19, 2008, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton NJ.
“Holism and the Constitutive A Priori: Hegel, Quine and Friedman” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science annual conference, May 28-31, 2007, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK.
“(Over) Reading the Analogy to Light: A Structural Argument about the Active Intellect” Reading Aristotle’s De Anima conference, September 28-30, 2006, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec.
“Friedman’s Neo-Kantianism and Quinean Holism: Possibilities for Rapprochement” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science annual conference, May 29-31, 2006, York University, Toronto.
“Understanding Reasonable Disagreements in Liberal Societies: Rawls and Stout.” Discourse, Democracy, Justice Conference, Loyola University, Chicago IL, March 10-12, 2006.
“The Philosophy of Art in Reid’s Inquiry and its Place in the Tradition of 18th Century Scottish Aesthetics.” Hume and His Critics Conference. April 14-16, 2005, Baylor University, Waco TX.
“Reid’s Aristotle and the Aristotelian Reid.” 3rd International Reid Symposium on Scottish Philosophy. July 14, 2004, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
“Aristotle and Hegel on Private Property and the Common Good” Canadian Political Science Association Conference, June 2010.
Courses I Teach
POLI 200 - Invitation to Politics and GovernmentPOLI 310 - History of Political Thought I: Classical and Medieval Political Thought
POLI 311 - History of Political Thought II: Modern Political Thought
POLI 317 - Christian Social and Political Movements (since the French Revolution)
PHES 495 - Senior PHE Seminar